Managed care

Managed care

A health care practice intended to streamline services and provide high quality, cost-effective care.

Industry: Health care

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interface

Health care; Managed care

A means of communication between two computer systems, two soft ware applications, or two modules. Real-time interface is a key element in health care information systems because of the need to ...

A measure of a specific component of a health improvement strategy. An indicator can reflect an activity implemented to address a particular health issue, such as the number of children aged 2 years ...

adjusted admissions

Health care; Managed care

A measure of all patient care activity undertaken in a hospital, both inpatient and outpatient. Adjusted admissions are equivalent to the sum of inpatient admissions and an estimate of the volume of ...

mortality

Health care; Managed care

A measure of deaths in a given population, location, or other grouping of interest. In insurance, the relative incidence of death as measured within a given age group.

consumer price index (CPI)

Health care; Managed care

A measure of the core rate of inflation, according to a diverse market basket of goods and services.

consumer price medical index (CPMI)

Health care; Managed care

A measure of the core rate of medical and health care services inflation, according to a diverse market basket of health care goods and medical services.

physician’s work

Health care; Managed care

A measure of the physician’s time, physical effort and skill, mental effort and judgment, and stress from iatrogenic risk associated with providing a medical service; as a component of the Medicare ...